Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson

Kaitlyn Dunnett and Kathy Lynn Emerson are both mystery writers. Kaitlyn writes the Liss MacCrimmon Scottish-American Heritage Mysteries set in Moosetookalook, Maine, starting with Kilt Dead. The twelfth entry in the series, Overkilt, will be out in late October 2018. She launched the new “Deadly Edits” series in June 2018 with Crime & Punctuation. Kathy writes an Elizabethan-era mystery series (England in the 1580s) featuring Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey as both spy and sleuth. The most recent is Murder in a Cornish Alehouse. She also maintains a website devoted to mini-biographies of women who lived in England between 1485 and 1603. You can find it at http://www.TudorWomen.com

Kathy is the author of the Face Down Mysteries, featuring sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth Susanna Appleton (starting with Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie), the Diana Spaulding 1888 Quartet, featuring an intrepid scandal sheet reporter and a physician who hails from Bangor, Maine (starting with Deadlier than the Pen), and two collections of short stories, Murders and Other Confusions and 2017’s Different Times, Different Crimes. She also wrote the Agatha-award-winning nonfiction book, How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries: The Art and Adventure of Sleuthing Through the Past.

Kaitlyn/Kathy lives in the Western Maine mountains with her husband and their cats.